Luo Mu had never imagined that Starmie's obviously rock-hard—
Body parts?
Arms?
Or perhaps tentacles?
Whatever they were, how could it walk in such a disgusting way?
The sight of the two tentacles beneath it bending and running like human legs was unbelievably bizarre.
Just watching it was enough to trigger Luo Mu's Valley of Laughter Effect.
"Ah! What is that!?"
"A starfish is running!"
"That's a Starmie first discovered in the Kanto Region—"
"No, Starmie from our Kanto Region don't walk like that, okay???"
"But this is the Sinnoh Region. Could it be regional differences?"
"What kind of joke is that? There aren't even any Starmie in the Sinnoh Region!"
The crowd lining up to enter the Space-Time Tower erupted into noisy chaos. Screams rose one after another; clearly, Starmie's bizarre and absurd running posture had frightened them badly.
At that moment, a blonde girl in a dress suddenly ran out from the side of the line. With Chimchar's help intercepting it, she caught the rampaging Starmie.
"Excuse me! This child is one of the Pokémon from the courtyard. It may be a little unaccustomed to the climate because it just arrived from the Kalos Region. It was probably startled and ran out."
"Please continue lining up, everyone. We're terribly sorry."
With that, the girl hugged the eighty-kilogram Starmie and jogged toward an area behind the Space-Time Tower that was not open to the public.
Together with Officer Jenny, who had been transferred here to handle security, soothing the crowd, the initial disorder gradually settled down.
Standing in the queue and watching everything unfold, Luo Mu gazed in the girl's direction of departure with a thoughtful expression.
Putting aside why that Starmie, which seemed to have come from the Kalos Region, could run so fast after pushing off with